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Before you start
Before you even start thinking about your media and marketing activity for Foster Care Fortnight 2019, it is ... to do the following:
Set your objectives
Decide how many foster carers do you need to recruit during 2019, and how many ...

​ How did your family start fostering? When I was thirteen months old my mum ... when she saw a lady with lots of children who appeared to be struggling, so offered to help. After talking with the lady my mum found ... We’d have to share rooms and toys, while making sacrifices about going on certain trips. But at that time, and looking back on it now, ...

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About the campaign
Moving on in foster care – to adoption, back home or to wider family, to another foster family, to ... their former foster carers, and makes recommendations on how Governments in the UK can improve the current situation. Good relationships ...

... their website.
Universities will treat the information about care-experience as confidential and will not label or negatively ... leads on university applications at your local school and howtocontact them. It could be the Head of Sixth Form/College or Head of ...

... is a particular aspect of our work that you feel strongly about, please contactus and we’d be happy to discuss in more detail the ... or family. Your solicitor will be able to advise you on howto make your will as tax efficient as possible.
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... for fostered young people.
For more information about Fostering Community Champions email Sarah McEnhill
For media ... personal experiences and advice throughout Scotland, on howto improve foster care for children and young people and addressing the ...

... Allegations should be treated differently from concerns about poor standards of care.
The public authority (the local authority or ... and the police will all be involved in deciding exactly how a particular allegation is investigated.
How we can help foster carers ...

... as well as our latest recruitment targets , or read more about fostering legislation in England .
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Our ... minimum standards, legislative frameworks, tax enquiries and howto access support. As well as using the expertise within the team, they are ...

... Thornhill, a foster carer, gives a vivid description of how social pedagogy has changed her children’s lives for the better. To ... from his teachers at school. He was worried and anxious about almost everything and protective of his little brother. Jonathan had ...

Haltung – what does it mean and how can you use it? Change makers Learning to live in the real ... Nicola Hill says Haltung is the starting point for thinking abouthowto incorporate social pedagogy in her practice as a foster carer. ...

... and, although I disagree with their recommendations for how, we and fostering services across the UK need to help bust them. Our own ... to read an article on Devon County Council this week about the measures they are considering to reshape its fostering service. ...

... as to the status of the child and who can make decisions about holidays, and get all those permissions and relevant paperwork in order, ... child?
Think about safer caring practice and how you will implement this while on holiday.
Will contact arrangements ...

Many of you have already been out and about taking pictures with the My Connection to Fostering placards and ... fostered children you haven’t been able to place together? How do you use your foster carers to facilitate this form of contact? The ...

... potential number of enquirers to the service and be planning howto resource it accordingly. Clearly if new applicants’ sole motivation is ... to address some of the concerns of prospective foster carers about the impact of fostering on the wider family. From across the ...

... have all sorts of buds and branches – family isn’t just about DNA. Across our city children need families who will help them to ... too early after leaving care. Over half were also unaware howtocontact an advocate, a service to which they are entitled. Of course ...

... withdrawal, this time the impact in Wales, plus information about our free assessment material taster sessions and a bumper practice issue ... think about the subliminal messaging, targeting and how they relate to a local need. Invite your foster carers to watch them and ...

... the assessment? ​ Please get in touch to tell me about the impact of your local Foster Care Fortnight campaign . A number of ... on timescales. The DfE is therefore seeking your opinion on how well assessments for special guardians works at the moment, and whether ...

... didn’t feature. It would though be interesting to see how the barriers of those who have researched fostering and those without any knowledge overlap… I’ve had a few enquiries recently about recruiting in small BME communities, so this months IN FOCUS will look at ...

... involved who will be eligible to benefit and when how they will benefit, for example time off and the process for agreeing ... which involves coming in to talk to children of all ages about his experiences of fostering. He answers questions in an open, honest and ...

... things don't go right. This is no picnic, it is not just about having a spare room. When things go wrong it can tear you apart and leave ... in are not ideal, but we don’t think this should change how we strive to do our jobs. There are wonderful people doing fantastic work ...

How did you decide to be come a foster carer?
I have been working with young people for 15 ... life, but also to support young people.
Tell us a bit about your fostering experience – how long you’ve fostered for, who ...

... endearing thoughts including, “When I saw something on TV about fostering, I thought I would have a go” and ““It was quite a ... in favour of fostered triplets, the minister recognises how the experience has benefitted his professional career but more importantly, ...

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And yet I am struggling to conjure the words to explain how it feels to come face to face with the reality of what is happening to ... and more questions
One of the few things I knew about our lad before he arrived was that by the time he got tous, he would ...

... Make Some Noise Charlotte Clark and Simon Johr describe how a music project in Staffordshire helped to build young people’s ... project was empowering the young people to make choices about what they wanted to learn and was underpinned by social pedagogy. The ...

... sits on the adoption panel.
When I heard about the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) research on transitions from ... calls or birthday and Christmas cards.
I have seen how this can benefit a child when it is done well. Former foster carers can ...

... Work explores these issues and raises questions as tohow foster carers can be supported to foster and work outside the home while ... who may not have had placements for some time to think about the reality of fostering teenagers. The course had two strands – ...

... was thought not to be in his interest although we did talk about it during reviews. After the social pedagogy course I got a bit braver ... Model Although one of the properties of a diamond is how hard it is, Eichsteller and Holthoff’s diamond model relates to its ...

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... also hear from foster carers Will Howells and Bryn Miles about their experiences, and from health and social services minister Mark ... “For the thousands who are already foster carers, we know how important it is that they feel valued and supported by their fostering ...

... foster carers are under 35, despite this age group making up about 20 per cent of the UK’s population.
Kevin Williams, chief ... campaign to raise the profile of fostering and to show how foster care transforms lives. It is also the UK's biggest foster carer ...

... should have more authority to make day-to-day decisions about the care of children in long-term placements than about those in ... be available, to increase awareness and understanding of how issues can develop and change over time. Training on supporting and ...

... children, under 25s and over 55s were even less optimistic about the likelihood of being accepted to foster.
The survey also found ... doesn’t matter if you are single or living as a couple, how old you are, or whether you have children, a job or own your own house. ...

... parent to provide for their child as the benchmark for how they should approach their role.’ “We wholeheartedly endorse ... deserve to have a Government and society which is passionate about their successful futures. The Fostering Network applauds the commitments ...

... fostering service and their employer), shares their opinions about combining fostering with other work and identiﬁes what kind of support ... fostering services out there, and I want all to now consider how they can go further in supporting employees who foster.”
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... feel privileged to be able to make a difference, no matter how small, in their lives. Our reward is seeing them go out into the world as ... foster carers. I would urge anyone who has been thinking about fostering to take the next step and apply to become a foster carer by ...

... to disclose to foster carers all information available about the children coming into their care, following a survey of foster ... shared as a matter of course with foster carers, and we know how damaging this can be to their families and fostered children. When children ...

... Northern Ireland, said of the Mahons: “Sometimes you hear about people, people who quietly go about their business helping others, living ... been possible without them. We try to tell them all the time how much we appreciate what they have done but Shirley always say it was ...

... wrong; and she can adapt her responses to the child based on how they are feeling on that day.’
Another social worker said: ‘The ... It was a real pleasure to meet Patricia and Colm and hear about the real difference they are marking to children’s lives. Their ...

There has been a tremendous response to our #changeafuture theme this Foster Care Fortnight from our members and supporters as well as decision makers around the UK and the wider public, with more than 1,000 pieces of media coverage and countless social media posts